The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-11-11

girls.
with face pale and troubled.
Fred" he said, II have comics
sion 10 make. and want your advice
and sympathy--no, your sympathy
have no right 10 claim. but ! believe
your counsel will be good and worth
following"
Il am battered BY your opinion"
returned. laying aside the book was
reading. ..What Is your trouble?"
You know am engaged 20 Bessie
Bessie Is my pretty little cousin.
yes" answered. laconically.
"And you know-you know he
| hesitatcd and colored.
"Iknow great many things, but
not this special thing you arc going 20
tell me"
"You know am in love with Blanch
Bernard"
II have every reason to believe 50.
"Iknow am wretch-a villain OF
the first water"
~ can't quite agree with you, ! In
terrupted; "still--" ! paused at this
point. rather doubtful Of how to pro-
coed.
IL told you. Fred. that ! didn't ex-
pect your sympathy
"And yetyou have it," interrupted
again. with significant shrug.
I'm sure I'm an object Of sympa-
pathy," he said. dcjcctedly; engaged
TO one woman and madly in love with
another one. Bessie is the best, the
sweetest. the dearest girl on earth. but
oh! Fred. what shall do? ! am
: tempted, sometimes. to take pistol
and make an end nt the whole misera-
BILE affair. II a man could marry both
Of them-but that is impossible. \"
"Clcarly impossible; 50 you must
select some safer channel for the course
} Of your true love than suicide or big
amy"
= "well. l came to ask your advice
y and whatever you advise Fired. an
q the most miserable man on earth AM
: see no possible way out Of my Difficult
: ties. ("
d 1.-The first thing to do" ! said. rs y
7. ask Bessie to release you from you
: present bondage; the second. to asl
N Miss Bernard
g Il can't bear to think Of asking Bes
sie"-
is ..Sit right down here at once"
ID said. authoritatively, placing chat
te at my writing-desk, ''and write IN
&c exact truth to Bessie. You will hav
TX To break with her sooner or later, ant
;. the sooner it is done the better for yo'
re both"
ve ..You are very anxious" he sale
re pcttishly. Il believe you've alwa,
y had liking for Bessie yourself"
Is "And so have.- said. smiling l
be this betrayal Of pique and jealous.
K. .You have no right TO be Jealous. .
ID you no longer care for her"
IL II do care for her, / am devoted
IL her, but not in the way ! care e
IS Blpnch-"
ds Exactly; Just as l said. Nov
lei Clarence, no nonsense; IL you are tire
Of the old love, be of with her as 500
ed As you ploase. but don't make love
iss the old and the new at one and II
m same time. don't understand how
cd man who has been in love with 81
S. like Bessie could descend to Blanc
rls Bernard, but every one TO his tast
Ike TO be sure, I have arrived at years
ad discretion. and can no longer be /
Ter captive BY pair Of brilliant eyes al
ng 4 mass OF shining Fair. ] admit the
in Is wide difference between twent
lad five and thirty-five-"
J a. Clarence flushed holly.
Of "Major Reynolds" he exclaime
[iss spiritedly, lis as mad about Blanch
vie am. He makes himself absurd whe
lily ever he Is in her presence. and !
to sure you can't make his youth : n
her text for sneering at his taste and jud
lly, mcnt-"
YER II can't account for his madn'
red except on the principle that one e
on. | makes many. or that extremes me
had and an old fool and . young fool M
ills; on the same plane" replied, smilir
he'd " and placidly.
Of II am ready to admit that am
the fool-in your opinion--and the gu
Of ton will require no arguing" ne 81
0 a impatiently. lingering his mousta'
With nervously. but came to you
inc advice, not criticism. Now tell =
Gus Fred, seriously. do you think ! wo'
lied be justified, honorably Justified
of breaking with Bessie under the
self cumstanccsP"
for .'Seriously. Clarence. ] think
vis- would be justified in doing moth
. 81 else; you would certainly not be b
, its orably justified in marrying
par woman while in love with anot
hich one. DO not allow yourself to
my deceived by any false and scntimer
nm notions o. honor. II you have cea
inu- to love Bessie. tell her 50 at once. "
'css- .svell, will" he said, rcsclutely
this He seated himself At my desk
wrote letter which he entrusted
Of me to deliver.
the l decided in my own mind
her Clarcnce's iniatuation for Miss Bern
was was but flccting illusion, for !
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